The reasoning behind this is an attempt to rid the country of “decadent Western cuts.” Approved haircuts are “inspired by Iranians' complexion, culture and religion, and Islamic law.”
Iranian police often carry out “morality checks,” arresting men and women who are wearing unaccepted styles, in order to support the Iranian and Islamic culture and keep western influences out.
The Korean system isn’t so easy. In Korea, a baby is born being one year old because they include the time in the womb as being alive, so they are already technically a year older than westerners consider themselves. This may not seem so strange, but it gets odder.
Every New Year another year is added to their age. Thus, if a baby is born on the last day of the year, they will be two years old on New Year’s Day! Many do calculate their age according to Western culture because it’s much less complicated, yet this tradition is still popular in Korea.
The system was actually started in China and has been widely used across Asia throughout the years. It was officially outlawed in Japan, and fell out of use in most places. Korea, however, still favors this system over the Western one.
In 1999, Harrison was sleeping comfortably in his home with his wife when a man named Michael Abram broke into the house. He began loudly calling Harrison’s name until he came out of the bedroom. Harrison’s wife Olivia called the police while Harrison went to see what the commotion was from. Almost immediately Abram attacked Harrison with a knife, stabbing him seven times.
Harrison was severely wounded with a punctured lung and head injuries, and would have been killed if his wife hadn’t struck the assailant with a fire poker! After fifteen minutes Abram was arrested by the police, yet did not go to jail. Abram claimed God had told him to kill Harrison, which caused him to be labeled as insane. Harrison survived the attack and Abram was released after only 19 months of incarceration.
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The Soviets first came to the camp Majdanek in Poland. The Germans had burnt down the crematorium, where they had been burning dead bodies, in an attempt to remove evidence of the mass murder. However, they still left behind a gas chamber.
As the Soviets continued their march, they managed to liberate many other camps, including Auschwitz, which was the largest extermination and concentration camp. The Soviets found evidence of the mass murder including 14,000 pounds of hair!
Although Soviet forces liberated more concentration camps, the Allied forces also liberated a number of camps. At Buchenwald, American troops freed more than 20,000 prisoners, as well as liberated other camps such as Dora-Mittelbau, Flossenbürg, Dachau, and Mauthausen. British forces liberated Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen. In Bergen-Belsen 60,000 prisoners were freed, though sadly many died of typhus soon after because of an epidemic.
Atkinson had never flown a plane before, but took control in order to save his wife and two kids. The pilot woke up in time to land the plane after Atkinson slapped him several times. The actor himself has made no comment on the event. The incident was reported and the Atkinson family flew back to the UK. Atkinson is no stranger to transportation accidents: in 1999, he survived a car crash unscathed.
